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I abandonware because I can't find these games any other way, because the publishers won't do it. How much work did they really have to do? A little engine work, check it out, and *poof* - profit. Square gets it - look how they're rereleasing Final Fantasy games on the Wonderswan color - and making a mint.
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How hard would it be to take Ultima Underworld I and II, Shadowcaster, update the code to a Win32/OSX/Linux base, then sell the CD for $20 and say "Hey, folks - the great games you loved? Come pay us $20 for it!" 90% of the development work is done, they just have to get an engine in. What amazes me is how stupid most publishers are. (It's been a near joke playing Final Fantasy I, and marveling that this launched a multi-billion dollar gaming franchise.) I use Abandonware to play the games that everybody else talks about. I didn't have a Nintendo when I grew up, I didn't have a Genesis or all of the other games.
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I missed out on a lot of the years of gaming. Were it left to business, our history would be wiped out in order to favor their own positions in the present. The abandonware people are doing the right thing. The justification - the sole justification - for copyright is the benefit reaped by the public, not in mere commerce. Now we have Bugs Bunny, and it is impossible for our culture to thrive as it did in the past by retelling and changing the stories about him, like we did with the others since time immemoriable. We used to have trickster characters like Odysseus, Loki, and Coyote. Like it or not, our cultural icons are locked up in copyright schemes now. Disney _isn't_, but what I'd like to see is everyone, including them, doing so. He's a good character, you can do some good stuff with him. I'm sorely hoping that the Eldritch case will go well so that I can work to create a brand new Mickey Mouse cartoon. Nevertheless, there's value in the new derivative work. Those guys didn't independently develop Snow White, or Cinderella. There's value in being able to take a story like the Odyssey and Illiad, and being able to reuse elements from them in crafting another work - such as the Aenid.
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Were that the case, the ability to make a new derivative work would be ruined.
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